Idoloclast Idol-Smasher | Jesus NIKA Fist w/ Sledgehammer on Red Background | Smash Your Passions | Orthodox Christian Hardcover JournalAvoid making idols either of things or of practices. + St. Macarius of Optina The passions are uprooted by keeping the commandments. + St. Maximus the Confessor, Four Hundred Texts on Love, 2. 31 You cannot pass a day tranquilly unless you mortify the passions. + St John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, Step 26: On Discernment He who has conquered the passions has conquered nature, but he who is conquered by the passions is a slave, even if he

And be glorified with eternal glory as God

but there was the sort of temporal motion and interval that is co-extensive with eternity

control of one's passions and base impulses) for the sake of the Kingdom

and since the Most Holy Theotokos housed the Sun of Righteousness

” He went a little farther and fell on His face

Forsaking the other doctors

If I was to tally all of the hours per week on entertainment vs prayer: what would that ratio look like

The case is still unsolved

that we may attain the eternal things full of joy

for that day to surprise you like a thief

/ both visible and invisible

- Troparion of Bridegroom Matins